Christopher Cobb
Licensed Professional Counselor
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Christopher Cobb Licensed Professional Counselor
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What Is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues of individuals, family members or a whole family's interactional climate. Mental health problems can have both psychological, social and somatic dimensions. These issues often make it hard for people to manage their lives and achieve their goals. Psychotherapy is aimed at these problems, and attempts to solve — or help people themselves to solve — them via a number of different approaches and techniques. The term counseling is often used interchangeably with psychotherapy...[More from Wikipedia] How Psychotherapy Can Work For YouUnder my care, we will begin our work by focusing on the problems that caused you to seek help along with the underlying issues that are the real sources of your distress. We will develop a treatment plan that emphasizes first your relationship with yourself, then on your relationship with others. Together, we will work to understand how you developed your dominate self-image and your current level of self-esteem. We will explore how your personal Cycle of Mental Health influences your development of ineffective and dysfunctional coping skills (such as drugs and alcohol, codependent lifestyles, relationship impairments, and other types of negative behaviors that work against you). We will explore the role your anxieties and avoidance of attachments that affect your ability to connect with other people.
Utilizing tried and proven therapeutic methods, group therapy, and by developing collaborative goal, we will work together to improve your self image and self esteem. Using 12-Step-based programs, we will work through your addictions and codependency. Collaborating with your Psychiatrist and other mental health providers, I will assist you in building functional coping skills for your anxiety (generalized, panic, and post traumatic stress), depression, obsessive-compulsive, adult ADD, and other disorders that interfere with your ability to succeed in your life. Through education and better choice of behaviors, you will be in a position to achieve better results in all of your relationships, including your intimate relationships of marriage and family. When working with couples, my pervasive philosophy regarding marriage and family therapy is to focus on strengthening the individuals, then improve the marriage or relationship. I work with all issues involving couples, but I often find the major issues presented by couples are communication, financial, sexual, and/or being "too close" or "too separate" within the relationship. We will work in collaboration to uncover the underlying individual themes that are the source of these relationship dysfunctions and will work structured programs specifically designed to improve your relationship in these areas of struggle. I refer clients to other therapists with specialties in children and adolescent issues, eating disorders, perpetrators of incest and domestic violence, learning disabilities, adoptive families, career counseling, psychiatric and psychological testing, and severe mental health therapy and recovery.
Although I am a Christian, I avoid imposing my own personal religious beliefs on others. I guide my practice of therapy from the belief that everyone has the inherent right and ability to develop their strengths and skills so they can lead full and meaningful lives. As we begin our therapeutic relationship, it is important that your understand my credentials and educational background. Currently licensed as a Professional Counselor (GA LPC4466), I began my preparations as a Psychotherapist through an educational background that includes these undergraduate and graduate degrees: Alabama Christian College, AA-Religion, 1977; The University of Georgia, BBA-Accounting, 1984; and Argosy University, MA - Counseling Psychology, 2002. As part of my master's curriculum, I completed an internship where I received my clinical training from Metro Atlanta Recovery Residence, Inc. (MARR), Men’s Center Professional Recovery Program, in Doraville, GA, from September 2001 through September 2002. Psychotherapy can be an effective mode of treatment for a variety of symptoms and life problems. However, positive results cannot be guaranteed. It is important that we seek to establish an open working relationship in which we can discuss your needs, hopes, and expectations as we develop goals for your therapy. Your active participation the individual or group therapy is essential to achieve your identified goal of therapy. Should you have questions about my therapeutic philosophy, please ask them in our initial meeting. It is important that you fully understand the services I provide prior to commencing with therapy.
If you are experiencing an emergency or mental health crisis, please dial 911 or go to the nearest hospital emergency room for immediate assistance. As an independent practitioner, I provide you with psychotherapy services; thus I am not equipped in my practice to handle off hours emergencies. |
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